CITY AND Suburban

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 63, 8 December 1930, Page 13

CITY AND Suburban

Items of Interest

George Frederick Murphy, newly arrived in Wellington, was admitted to the Wellington Hospital yesterday with a wound in. his throat.

From to-day traffic will be permitted alternately in each direction over the Kelburn viaduct subject to strict compliance with the directions of the traffic inspectors or automatic signals. Red and green lights similar to those in the citv have been installed and traffic officers will be on duty at busy periods.

Jack McGaughey, a child aged three years, who lives at Golden Gate, Paremata, was scalded on the right leg and both hips when a pot of boiling watei was upset, over him at 1.30 p.m. yesterday. He was brought to the Wellington Hospital by ambulance.

The Island Bay Municipal Electors’ Association has appointed a deputation to wait ou the City Council with a request that the drainage of Volga Street be undertaken immediately. The estimates have provided for this work. The association has written to the City Council, the Wellington Automobile Club and the Master Carriers’ Association regarding the scheme for extending Melbourne Road.

People who find their water supply taking a rusty hue during this week need have no qualms about the matter. Indeed, they may look for it with some degree of certainty in certain districts, as the city engineer’s department is at present engaged in doing soms necessary main, cleaning and enlarging work by removing the encrustation which is apt to form with the years, and the removal of which will ensure a fuller service than heretofore.

Knocked down by a motor-cycle shortly after noon on Saturday, Mary Harris, of 57 Grafton Road, a child aged five years, was cut on the head and dazed. After receiving attention from Dr. H. J. Rawson she was taken home by the Wellington Free Ambulance.

Collections were taken up at all Wellington theatres on Saturday evening for the Mayor's Unemployment Relief Fund. The kindness of the theatre proprietors was not in every instance appreciated. “We hare already paid our 30/- into the compulsory State unemployment fund, and we do not see, when we come out te enjoy an evening’s entertainment, that we should be asked to make a further contribution,” was a remark heard in more than one place of amusement